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JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS

Jul 13, 2013

Effects will become more obvious as Japan's climate changes

By Rowan Hooper

Residents of Japan's big cities, and of Tokyo in particular, are well aware of the heat-island effect — especially now with the onset of summer.

JAPAN / Media

Jul 13, 2013

Media barge into royal baby's life before it's born

By Anthony Faiola

Outside the private Lindo Wing of St. Mary's Hospital, the global media hordes on Royal Baby Watch have marked their turf with duct tape and stepladders like so many predators. But starved for material in a world where Mother Nature and Buckingham Palace are the last two holdouts from the 24-hour news...

JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN

Jul 13, 2013

'Black' business tales cast shadow on candidate

By Mark Schreiber

Elections for the House of Councillors will be held a week from today. The election is being billed as historic in that candidates are permitted to appeal to voters via the Internet.

JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX

Jul 13, 2013

Democracy hits the Web, but are the 'real' voters listening?

By Philip Brasor

The Wall Street Journal posted an interesting article on its Japan Real Time blog regarding the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP's) beef with broadcaster TBS, whom it accused of bias against the ruling party on its "News 11" program.

JAPAN

Jul 13, 2013

Mitsubishi Tanabe to buy Canada firm

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp. said it will acquire a Canadian pharmaceutical firm to develop vaccines in conjunction with a unit of U.S. tobacco giant Philip Morris to strengthen its know-how ahead of a rise in global demand.

WORLD / Politics

Jul 13, 2013

U.S. Homeland Security chief resigns

Janet Napolitano, who as President Barack Obama's homeland security secretary has one of the broadest and most challenging portfolios of any Cabinet member, announced Friday that she is stepping down to become president of the University of California system.

WORLD

Jul 13, 2013

U.S. to buy Russian-made choppers for Afghanistan despite Assad ties

By the end of 2016, the Afghanistan Air Force is due to have 86 Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters. Most of them will have been purchased by the United States from Rosoboronexport, the same state weapons exporter that continues to arm the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad.

WORLD / Crime & Legal

Jul 13, 2013

Guantanamo hunger strike coming to an end: U.S. military reports

A prolonged hunger strike by more than 100 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, appeared to be coming to an end Friday after military officials reported that almost all had started eating again.

WORLD

Jul 13, 2013

Al-Qaida-linked group kills Syrian rebel commander

Syrian rebels said Friday they would retaliate for what they described as the assassination of one of their senior commanders by an al-Qaida-affiliated group, threatening to widen a rift between moderate and jihadist opposition forces fighting to topple President Bashar Assad.

ENVIRONMENT

Jul 13, 2013

Could passenger pigeons be on the brink of de-extinction?

By Jackson Landers

It is often said that the passenger pigeon, once among the most abundant birds in North America, traveled in flocks so enormous that they darkened the skies for hours as they passed. The idea that the bird, which numbered in the billions, might disappear seemed as absurd as losing the cockroach. And...

ENVIRONMENT

Jul 13, 2013

Hong Kong air pollution killed 1,600

Hong Kong's air pollution caused more than 1,600 premature deaths in the first half of the year, almost 40 times the number of fatalities attributed to the H7N9 avian flu virus, according to a study by the Clean Air Network.

EDITORIALS

Jul 13, 2013

More people studying Japanese

The number of students learning Japanese worldwide rose 9 percent inn 2012 from 2009, indicating an underlying interest in a country that some call listless.

EDITORIALS

Jul 13, 2013

Iodine tablets no prevention

To require local governments to keep enough potassium iodide pills on hand in the event of another nuclear disaster could give people a false sense of security.

COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT

Jul 13, 2013

Kono Statement: Hit-and-run Abe vandalizes 20th anniversary

By Jeff Kingston

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pursuing dead-end diplomacy in East Asia at precisely a time when Japan most needs to shore up relations with neighbors so as to position itself well for China's ongoing rise. Alas, he doesn't grasp that regional reconciliation over history should be his calling card, not...

COMMENTARY / World

Jul 13, 2013

West must deal with Egypt's de facto leadership

By Tony Blair

Events in Egypt are the latest example of the interplay worldwide among democracy, protest and government efficacy. Western disengagement is not an option.

SOCCER / J. League

Jul 13, 2013

Marinos outclass league-leading Ardija

By Andrew MCKIRDY

Yokohama F. Marinos clipped J.League leaders Omiya Ardija's wings and moved firmly into the chasing pack with a 2-1 win on Saturday night.

BASKETBALL

Jul 13, 2013

Mitsui earns trip to streetball finals at Alcatraz Island

By Jason Coskrey

Hideki Mitsui is headed to one of the world's most famous prisons, where the "Tokyo No. 1 Boss Dog" will try his hand at ruling the yard.

BASKETBALL

Jul 13, 2013

Fukuoka targeting Tuck as next coach

By Ed Odeven

The Rizing Fukuoka are in pursuit of a former Chinese Basketball Association star to fill their coaching vacancy, The Japan Times has learned.

LIFE

Jul 13, 2013

Gender bending in Japan

By Michael Hoffman

Do our genitals define us? Increasingly, they do not. Is sexuality more complicated than male/female? Increasingly, it is.

LIFE / Travel

Jul 13, 2013

Hot weather's cold comfort for eels

By Hillel Wright

In March this year, I spent a week in Taiwan as a guest of the Taiwan Fisheries Agency. My hosts had laid on a relentless daily schedule that took in a complete circuit of the island nation, visiting nearly all the major commercial fishing ports, including Taitung on the Pacific Ocean, Tainan and Kaosiung...

CULTURE / Books

Jul 13, 2013

Entertainingly angry study of Italy's trains

By Andrew Martin

Thirty years ago, Tim Parks moved from London to Italy. As a writer until recently mired in the midlist, he admitted that he didn't want to watch "the rise of the Amises and McEwans" in more detail than strictly necessary. He has written 15 novels, but his breakthrough came with a nonfiction work, "Teach...

CULTURE / Books

Jul 13, 2013

A diary washed ashore opens up a world of multiple realities

By Kris Kosaka

A good read transcends into the eternal, melding the real now with a timeless present. Ruth Ozeki's "A Tale for the Time Being" is all that and more: a quietly amazing achievement, a careful construct bridging quantum physics and the role of the reader/observer, a Zen eternity of multiple realities...

CULTURE / Books

Jul 13, 2013

Intriguing coming-of-age story masquerading as a crime thriller

By Alison Flood

'Joyland" comes with all the horror trappings for which Stephen King is known: a sinister carnival, a grisly unsolved murder, a haunted ride.

CULTURE / Books

Jul 13, 2013

Illuminating the interplay between Japanese poetry and pictures

By David Burleigh

This cleverly titled book combines two subjects, for the "art" that it describes is not just the art of haiku composition but that of the pictures that frequently accompany the poems, often by the same person. "If haiku is a worldwide phenomenon, haiga (haiku painting) is almost unknown," says the author....

CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF

Jul 13, 2013

Water issues around Asia; the world of solo karaoke; CM of the Week: Recruit

By Philip Brasor

Monday is Marine Day, a national holiday, and as has been its tradition for a decade, Nippon TV will air a 90-minute afternoon special about sustainability hosted by Osaka-based announcer Seiji Miyane. "Nippon no Shoku no Mirai" ("The Future of Food in Japan," 2:55 p.m.) attempts to project the future...

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The quake that shook Noto's sake brewing tradition

By Alex K.T. Martin

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